Device for slicing semiplastic materials



B. K SLONNEGER DEVICE FOR SLICING sEMPLAsTc MATEAL F11ed Aug 3, 1939 Y DD be severed by Said thread under tenslon appued to its free end norm l to the axis of the block nd w1thout deformation 01' the folded vrapper' A Wrapped b10ck of soft plastic materi l con]prising, sheet covering the sides nd ends of said block, a longitudinl edge of sid Sheet 1ng, a wrapper, a thread on the inner face there 4 0f and ...xtending throughout the tl'nsverSe di- Inens0n 01' the wrapper, said WEpper adEpted to be folded bout l,id body with the hreald lld acent thereto and in looped Te18tion therewith,

and means on the WTpper to restrain the sepE-) rgtion of the thread therefr0In excep through the narrowing of the lobp of the thread when g tensive strain is inlposed upon one end thereof 6. A Wrapped block of soft plastic m teria comprising, a paper sheet embodying 9. portion adapted to encircle the Sides of the naterial with the edges thereof in overlapped relation nd pol' tions a'dapted to be folded about the ends 0 the ntera'l a thread cenlented to said portlon of the wrapper adapted to encircle the sides of the nlater1al and extendh1g throughout the tra verse din1ension thereof a' free end of said thread being disposed in the edge of the encirc11ng por tlon of the wr pper, Said vvr pper be1ng folded bout the rnaterisl wlth the thread adjacent theretq whereby the thread my be peeled from the wrapper and suce the ma erial When tenslon is appued to s id free end of the thread. 

